Re: Not just computer language

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On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 08:37:58 GMT, "Debbie Carter"
<dcarter1955@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Hello Cor,
> Since this is a programming newsgroup I will drop the subject but
>thank you for explaining. I was unaware the English language had different
>versions. Keep up the good work!
>Debbie
Are trying to start a flame war :-) Even English as spoken in England
has many dialects, some almost impossible to understand to non native
speakers, such as Gorbals Glaswegian English. I have worked with many
people from the Netherlands and they in general speak and write
excellent English.

Doug Taylor
>
>
>
>"Cor Ligthert" <notmyfirstname@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>news:OXY%23$TWSFHA.2604@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Debbie,
>>
>> I agree however as well disagree with you, but your message is helpful. My
>> English is based on how I have learned English not American.
>>
>> To check that, I took just one message from Terry Burns. He is from Thames
>> Valley, not far away from Oxford where for us Dutch the best English is
>> spoken.
>>
>> >Ctrl Alt J will open up the object browser, and you can find all the
>> >classes
>> >in your assembly
>>
>> When I understand your message well, than you would have written something
>> as.
>> Ctrl Alt J opens the object browser and you find than all the classes in
>> your assembly
>>
>> I have learned to do it in the way as Terry writes. While by instance, the
>> way you write, looks very much on grammatical Dutch. Maybe you think that
>it
>> is therefore easier for me. No when I write English, I am thinking in
>> English. It can be that I overdo it now and therefore I will keep an eye
>on
>> it in future and am thankful for your message.
>>
>> The sentence about Dutch was that I skip in Dutch as well many words when
>I
>> quickly write a message. I am busy with the next sentence when the first
>is
>> not even ready. Than I correct it, however set than the words in the wrong
>> sequence. A message like yours is than good to point me again on that.
>>
>> However, I wrote first "...that I am skipping in Dutch as well many words
>> when I am writing quickly". Now I changed it, so maybe your message has
>> success and let me write in a more popular way in this newsgroup.
>>
>> The message concerning Herfried was that I was using more for us both
>known
>> keywords than language. Because Herfried understands those keywords, has
>it
>> less sense to write it in a way that everybody understands it. Maybe I
>> unconscious think too much, that because Herfried understands as much
>> languages as I, that the correct grammatical use is less important. You
>are
>> right when you now want to tell that more people read those messages, but
>> sometimes it gives than in my opinion a too long messages to explain
>> everything and is than for Herfried without any sense.
>>
>> The "when/if" error is something somebody else showed me as well. That is
>an
>> error hard to overcome. While grammatical in Dutch, it is as well not
>> correct, are we using that often and therefore I probably make that error
>in
>> English as well quiet easy, even if I keep an eye on it (I wrote first
>> "when"). :-)
>>
>> >I make wrtiting errors often but since this is a newsgroup and not a
>> >document I don't really care.
>>
>> I do not understand what you want to tell me with this last sentence from
>> you. However, the last part is not true. I don't care about it in the same
>> way as if it was a document.
>>
>> :-)
>>
>> Thank you
>>
>> Cor
>>
>>
>>
>

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